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Dear Colleagues,
The details of the IUCr Workshop on “Data Science Skills in Publishing: for authors, editors and referees” on day zero of ECM32 in Vienna (18th August 2019) can be found here:-
https://ecm2019.org/satellites/data-sci ... ublishing/
Best wishes,
John
Chairman of the IUCr Committee on Data

Dear Colleagues,
As a reminder just to mention that the IUCr's Forum posts on Public input to the Diffraction Data Deposition Working Group (DDDWG) 2011 to 2017 can be found here:-
viewforum.php?f=21
Best wishes,
John
Chairman of the IUCr Committee on Data

Dear Colleagues, The American Crystallographic Association has established a new Scientific Interest Group (SIG) on:- "Best Practices for Data Analysis and Archiving". Its constitution can be found here:- m The purpose of the SIG is:- "to further the advancement of all aspects of the ...

Dear Colleagues, As a member of the IUCr 2020 Congress Prague Programme Committee I now request community wide input towards the programme of the IUCr2020 Congress to be held in Prague. Specifically:- For Keynotes and Microsymposia:- a) Suggestions of topics. b) Suggestions of the possible speakers ...

Dear Colleagues,
My report on International Data Week and the CODATA General Assembly both held in Gaborone, Botswana is here:-
https://www.iucr.org/resources/data/mee ... odata-2018
Best wishes,
John
IUCr Representative to CODATA and Chairman of the IUCr Committee on Data

Dear Colleagues,
The SOLEIL synchrotron establishes a Data Management Policy:-
https://www.synchrotron-soleil.fr/en/ne ... ent-policy
Best wishes,
John
Emeritus Prof of Chemistry John R Helliwell DSc_Physics
Chair of IUCr CommDat and IUCr Representative to CODATA

Dear Colleagues ,
I draw your attention to the very significant article on raw powder diffraction data sharing in J Appl Cryst., weblink below:-
http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S160057671801556X
Best wishes,
John

Emeritus Professor of Chemistry John R Helliwell DSc_Physics
Chair of IUCr CommDat

Dear Colleagues, There is a very significant announcement from CODATA:- "In the context of the launch of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) implementation phase 2018-2020, the European Commission Expert Group Report ‘Turning FAIR Into Reality’ has been published. The Expert Group was chaire...

Dear Colleagues, There are two new reports from the USA National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of direct interest to us in terms of scientific research data. Firstly the NAS has published a report on a Workshop on Data Science :- m It is interesting from several points of view notably education and trai...

Dear Colleagues,
My Keynote Lecture at the IUCr Congress in Hyderabad, India entitled “The Science is in the Data” is online here:-
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lKxgvwNQNOk
Best wishes,
John
john.helliwell@manchester.ac.uk